From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:10:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8CD870DF94E6CA5-E68-1D13C@Webmail-d124.sysops.aol.com> <5EA77F96-7EA8-49D8-B8B6-D84D52D11334@telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296075925 25378 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 21:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Hans Aberg Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 22:05:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiCYI-0007uP-PM for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:05:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiCYI-0008CF-8b for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54256 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiCYC-0008Bt-R7 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiCYB-0001fi-LK for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:57228 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiCYB-0001fV-Il for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:11 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52437D0; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:58 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=LsPXgAinkamXRRkP7U9jr+jysfQ=; b=mNt7BM z+OVOZNERRtrjZcN6lLigZLOa8Kxc3pVntehfoMr9S7yxaE2/VE177krdLn9MMoF SNDIpbqJDp+xK1JSI4bFu44P/OuhBqmwalj6BzDsjLJ+8/Usnrr2CMKXI7P6TmoU YHGSip7KzqndEFOz+Ev3iAnvhboxT+1dcZbEQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=debZpYb5HqhjRMnvJOeJJovjMGKNb3rd YfOYJN1t20ddHboutdRVPKCkWQrsqHLhrUWTX5WcZfFh9M//MddXGL1Px0hrxCoM nD1qan5QmUGYWpTouQhMrWLAR9laNdwD1tRm1viJzNBI61NEBowAkIt668TtvoSN FPUEZsmJnLc= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469A337CF; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5599337CB; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:05:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5EA77F96-7EA8-49D8-B8B6-D84D52D11334@telia.com> (Hans Aberg's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:04:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 113E6D5C-2990-11E0-BD06-BC4EF3E828EC-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5038 Archived-At: On Fri 21 Jan 2011 11:04, Hans Aberg writes: > On 21 Jan 2011, at 00:07, Mark Harig wrote: > >>> When starting with 'guile -l', autocompiling fails, even with an >>> empty file. >>> > I found the error: > > On my computer, the directory ~/.cache/ had already been created by > another program, setting another owner so that guile could not create > its directories in it. Then, in the function compiled-file-name in file > system/base/compile.scm, the exception from ensure-writable-dir is > converted to #f, which is the argument after "string" in the error > message above. Thanks for the detailed report. I believe I've fixed this in git to give a more sensible error. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/